bad movie bingo!! for sale now!

update 2/10/09: the official bad movie bingo website has just gone up!  badmoviebingo.net! ok if you follow me on twitter you’ve been hearing about this for a long time now, and i wanted to release it much earlier, but i’m happy to at least have it up by xmas (barely!) so you could play itContinue reading “bad movie bingo!! for sale now!”

quicky gift idea – before and after photo

this is a gift i gave my parents a couple years ago, pre- do stuff!, and when i saw it here at the house i thought it would be a good project to share. i’m sure i saw the idea somewhere else, but i don’t know where. you could either make it in a photoContinue reading “quicky gift idea – before and after photo”

experimental sleeve dyeing!

i’m sitting on my parents’ couch right now in southern california, sick with a stinkin’ cold, blah, so i haven’t had the energy to get some things done that i wanted to have done by now.  but i think i do have the energy to write this belated post.  last weekend was my experimental sleeveContinue reading “experimental sleeve dyeing!”

simple mary jane style booties, part 2!

update 4/14/09: i made some slight changes to the decreases in the pattern, which are in italics (some k2tog’s have been switched to ssk’s).  the ravelry pdf, and download links here and on my pattern page have all been updated. pattern news! first, the patterns bar of my patterns + yarn page is up toContinue reading “simple mary jane style booties, part 2!”

craftstylish tutorials and other updatey stuff

once again, i’ve fallen a bit behind in letting you know about my craftstylish tutorials… yesterday was my semi-photorealistic 3-shade freezer paper stencil how-to!  this is a pretty crazy project – the result of having an idea pop into my head one day and then going for it.  the tutorial uses the christopher walken stencil,Continue reading “craftstylish tutorials and other updatey stuff”

hats! and more hats! yeah hats!

quicky post tonight before i get some sleep for the 100th monkey twilight sale tomorrow… the handmade nw show on tuesday went ok, not exactly busy (why tuesday? hmm) but i got lots of good feedback and decided to focus on hats for the upcoming shows. if you’ve been following my stuff for awhile youContinue reading “hats! and more hats! yeah hats!”